Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Snow In The Forecast?

We're watching this next system for a couple of days now - and it seems like it's finally time to break the news: we might see our first snowflakes of the season fall late Thursday into the very early hours of Friday.



Look at this image below:


You can see two areas circled in light blue on that timeline. Look between Friday at 4am and Thursday at 4pm... that is where we could see our first chance for flurries mixing in with lingering rain showers. The big question is just how much punch is left in that system by that point? Right now it doesn't look like a whole lot - but just for kicks we will show you what one computer model is thinking about snowfall potentials (we are not forecasting this much snow as of yet):

Not a good-looking forecast for early October... hopefully things change - and if not, hopefully they at least do not look anything near what we are seeing in that computer model forecast above.

Have a good night!

~KDLT Chief Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you meteorologists really understand those colored charts? you must know more than you let on in your broadcasts. any chance of enlightening us more?

KDLT Weather said...

We'll try to! We spend about 4-5 hours a day analyzing charts and things like that and then use what we find to make fancy animations that tell what we see in that using pictures and animations. Thanks for watching!
~Aaron Shaffer

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